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Jeremiah 10:4

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

KJV

argento et auro decoravit illud : clavis et malleis compegit, ut non dissolvatur :

Vulgate

ἀργυρίῳ καὶ χρυσίῳ κεκαλλωπισμένα· ἐν σφύραις καὶ ἥλοις ἐστερέωσαν αὐτά·

LXX

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

ASV

בְּ/כֶ֥סֶף וּ/בְ/זָהָ֖ב יְיַפֵּ֑/הוּ בְּ/מַסְמְר֧וֹת וּ/בְ/מַקָּב֛וֹת יְחַזְּק֖וּ/ם וְ/ל֥וֹא יָפִֽיק

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הֶחֱזִ֗יק
hchzyq
verb · 289×
זָהָ֖ב
zhb
noun · 388×
כֶּ֣סֶף
ksp
noun · 402×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מַקָּב֤וֹת
mqbvt
noun · 3×
מִּסְמְרִ֞ים
msmrym
noun · 4×
פָּק֖וּ
pqv
verb · 2×
תִּ֨יפִי֙
typy
verb · 7×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2112The first commandment condemns polytheism. It requires man neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly recalls this rejection of "idols, (of) silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see." These empty idols make their worshippers empty: "Those who make them are like th…

Cross-references

  • Acts 17:29 — Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
  • Dan 5:4 — They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
  • Hab 2:19 — Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
  • Hos 13:2 — And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men tha
  • Isa 40:19 — The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
  • Isa 41:6 — They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
  • Isa 44:12 — The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and
  • Isa 46:7 — They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of
  • Ps 115:4 — Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
  • Ps 135:15 — The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.